Welcome to Citizen. We've got a very special guest today. Patrick Montgomery from Casey

cattle company has gone in. Yeah, how you doing there? I'm living the dream a little tired,

you know, what are you going to do? Always tired. But not like postman, I'm not going to get any

face tattoos to let everybody know how tired I am. Seems like a bit of a reach doesn't. So you're

tell me about yourself, your background and the military and everything and then private business.

Yeah, so graduated high school in 2008. Did a year college do an ROTC program up at Northwest

Missouri State University. Decided I didn't want to be an officer, so I dropped out and listed

in the Army. Went to the 75th Range Regiment, did a couple of appointments with them,

got out, went back to school to become a veterinarian. Decided I didn't want to do that, so I got

undergrad in the animal science and I put together the business plan for Casey cattle company.

When did my MBA scale up this company and it's been a lot of fun since then, so that would have been

30 seconds or less version of my adult life. Tell me about the company.

Yeah, so Casey cattle company was kind of it was founded on the premise of like there's this huge

gap between people in this country that consume food and the people that produce food. I don't come

from an ag background, so I kind of had this foresight to see the disconnect there and put together

a business plan and did something about it. A big portion of that was serving a product that you

could tell palatable difference in because the big thing is when you're producing on a small scale,

it's going to be more expensive. So I was like, well how can I produce on a small scale and make sure

that it tastes way better than what you get at the grocery store. And so the cure for that was

wagyu beef, which nobody knew what the hell that was in 2016 when I started the company.

Yeah, and so you guys, what all facets of this are you engaged in from raising the cattle to

actually mailing it out? Yeah, so I'm sitting here on 420 acres in Weston. We have about 200

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